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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD OF FAUSTUS; JUDGMENT OF GOD SHOWED UPON JOHN FAUSTUS, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All christian men, give ear a while to me
Last Line: Embrace true faith that never more decays.
Subject(s): Faust


BEETHOVEN'S MUSIC TO FAUST, by HENRY JOHNSON (1855-1918)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O god of loving mercy, wilt thou deign
Last Line: —fetch me my book and leave me here alone.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Faust; Music & Musicians


FAUST, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: If only the phantom would stop reappearing!
Subject(s): Faust; Opera; Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The


FAUST, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If only the phantom would stop reappearing!
Last Line: On the bare, sunlit stage the hungers could begin
Subject(s): Faust; Opera; Phantom Of The Opera (movie, 1925), The


FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye wavering shapes, again ye do me enfold
Last Line: Ground.)
Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology


FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun his ancient music makes
Last Line: Curtain.
Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Faust; Freedom; Religion; Tragedy; Villains In Literature; Witchcraft & Witches; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Liberty; Theology


FAUST BOOK: DESIRES TO HAVE AS HIS PARAMOUR HELEN OF TROY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sweet helen, make me immortal with a kiss
Last Line: She thought her function was to classicize
Subject(s): Faust; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Troy


FAUST BOOK: DISCOURSES ON SUBJECT OF TRAINING & HEREDITY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Out for a healthy walk, faustus picks
Last Line: The dog assumes a toothy smile
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST AND GRETCHEN WALK IN THE GARDEN, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: No, I don't see much of the priest
Last Line: It went too far
Subject(s): Faith; Faust; Love


FAUST BOOK: FAUST AND MEPHISTOPHELES MAKE THEIR ADIEUS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: We too can more in a mysterious way
Last Line: But then, I'm used to missing
Subject(s): Devil; Farewell; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST AND THE DAFFODILS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Top of the morning to you
Last Line: Only the best will do for helen
Subject(s): Daffodils; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST APPEARS BEFORE THE SENATE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Addressing the senate of erfurt
Last Line: Hear, hear, mumble the senators
Subject(s): Faust; Politics


FAUST BOOK: FAUST ASKS ANOTHER HARD QUESTION, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I charge you, mephistopheles
Last Line: And catch a little one, I always throw it back
Subject(s): Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST ASKS FOR TROUBLE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now tell me, mephistopheles -- who was it made the world
Last Line: What these collaborative efforts are. Team-work's the answer
Subject(s): Creation; Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST ASKS HIMSELF WHAT HE HAS GAINED, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The fool, they say, persists in his folly
Last Line: And I shall write this in my blood
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST BETRAYS SIGNS OF FORWARDSLIDING, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Do you hope to emigrate internally
Last Line: You cannot take it with you %as we can
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST CONSIDERS THE SUBJECT OF SOULS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Gretchen has a large soul and small breasts
Last Line: Faust loves not souls, especially large ones
Subject(s): Faust; Soul


FAUST BOOK: FAUST DESIRES TO MEET LUCIFER, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I would dearly meet your master
Last Line: But I expect you'll meet him one day, dearly
Subject(s): Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST ENJOYS FURTHER INSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: So you want to do good
Last Line: I fear that I'm old-fashioned
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST EXHIBITS HIS NECROMANTIC POWERS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: At the duke of parma's court
Last Line: Humble regrets, said faust, the show is over
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST FINDS IT IS LATER THAN HE THOUGHT, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Not twenty-four, said mephistopheles
Last Line: Oh, I worked double time all right
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST GROWS IMPATIENT ... DARK MUTTERINGS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You're forever talking rot, snapped faust
Last Line: His shamefaced friend confessed
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST HAS A VISITOR, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There was a rapping at the door
Last Line: But I can't stay long, a woman's work is never done
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST HAS DOUBTS ABOUT THE BARGAIN, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In return for my immortal soul
Last Line: You'll find it does things to your sense of time
Subject(s): Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IN HIS STUDY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The interesting questions go unanswered
Last Line: Perhaps I can be of some small service %patting faust
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS BLESSED WITH A SON, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Insubstantial though she was
Last Line: I prefer true stories, he would say
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS FORBIDDEN TO MARRY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Remember there's no marrying
Last Line: About marrying and burning
Subject(s): Faust; Marriage


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS INTERROGATED BY THE AUTHORITIES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A noise like thunder was heard at the door
Last Line: Now please mend the door before taking your leave
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS SET UPON BY GRETCHEN'S BROTHER, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: One dark night faust and mephistopheles come face to face
Last Line: Better a living amateur %than a dead professional
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS SOON BORED, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What drew me so potently
Last Line: Artificial hearts as well, no doubt
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS STRUCK BY FEARS FOR HIS CAREER, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There's an academic joke
Last Line: To coin a phrase -- be damned and publish
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS TROUBLED BY A DREAM, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Faustus dreamt a strange dream, strange and deathly
Last Line: You have the magic touch
Subject(s): Dreams; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST JOURNEYS TO UNKNOWN REGIONS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dolphins bore faust to the bottom of the sea
Last Line: He will charm your sins away
Subject(s): Faust; Travel


FAUST BOOK: FAUST MAKES HIS WILL, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: After the specific legacies herein entered
Last Line: This need not be specified here
Subject(s): Faust; Wills


FAUST BOOK: FAUST PREFERS TO SUCCEED THROUGH OWN EFFORTS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You slog away at it, work, work, work
Last Line: We all need someone's help %so why not mine
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST QUIZZES MEPHISTOPHELES ABOUT LOVE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: But what can fallen angels know of love
Last Line: We take an interest in such as you
Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Love


FAUST BOOK: FAUST SUFFERS A TEMPORARY INDISPOSITION, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The girl's well named, mephisto leered
Last Line: There, you're as good as new again
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST'S FAREWELL TO HIS FRIENDS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: We'd all had formal invitations.
Last Line: Yes, it was a sorry business
Subject(s): Farewell; Faust


FAUST BOOK: FAUST'S PARENTS QUESTION MEPHISTOPHELES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Where's miss gretchen
Last Line: I wouldn't like to say
Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Parents


FAUST BOOK: GRETCHEN AT THE SEWING MACHINE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My stomach is sore
Last Line: I wish I was dead
Subject(s): Faust; Pregnancy


FAUST BOOK: HELEN VANISHES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: But she's fading away
Last Line: But she never returned
Subject(s): Faust; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical


FAUST BOOK: IN EXTENUATION TAKING CONCUBINE, FAUST PLEADS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: An affair with an immaterial and possibly
Last Line: I haven't done him good
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: IN SORROW WAGNER TAKES HIS LEAVE OF THE DOCTOR, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Wagner was offered work at heidelberg
Last Line: Then may you teach as well as you have learned
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: IN THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Poor old schleppfuss, he'd just announced his subject
Last Line: Time for another bottle of port, I think
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: LUCIFER ADVISES MEPHISTOPHELES OF THE DEVICE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Someone in weimar has tacked together
Last Line: The storm-cloud drifted away
Subject(s): Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES ASSURES ... IMMORTALITY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Why did I not give up the ghost
Last Line: Most lost souls don't rate an epitaph
Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Immortality


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES CALLS ... TO PRESERVE FAUST, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Look upon this thy servant faustus
Last Line: The aged mother sniffed a tear back
Subject(s): Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES ENLIGHTENS DR FAUST, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Why, if I may ask, did you appear
Last Line: What would you like to do with yours
Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Dogs; Faust


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES INTRODUCES FAUST TO 4TH ESTATE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Under the good solid name of gutenberg inc
Last Line: You had better specialize in french romances
Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Printing And Printers


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES SALVES FAUST'S CONSCIENCE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A delightful old couple
Last Line: And that reminds me
Subject(s): Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES WONDERS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: His master had too much on his plate
Last Line: Who he was working for
Subject(s): Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES' MINIONS RANSACK ... LIBRARIES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Mephisto plied faust with rare books
Last Line: Of transmitting original sin
Subject(s): Books; Devil; Faust


FAUST BOOK: PARENTS JOURNEY A GREAT DISTANCE TO SEE SON, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dear me, your aged parents have arrived
Last Line: Mephisto didn't mean to run a lodging house
Subject(s): Faust; Parents


FAUST BOOK: REBUKES MEPHISTOPHELES FOR VULGAR LANGUAGE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Knowledge is my bread and butter
Last Line: Wagner sniggered. Your famulus %grows familiar! Mephisto hissed
Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Language


FAUST BOOK: REQUIRES MEPHISTOPHELES TO DESCRIBE HELL ..., by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Tell me, I command you
Last Line: Thereof one says but little
Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Heaven; Hell


FAUST BOOK: THE COMMANDER DISMISSES HIS TROOPS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The times were out of joint
Last Line: It was a question of morale
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: THE DOCTOR CANNOT ABIDE GNATS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Phew! Faust whistled
Last Line: But a gnat in the throat is hateful
Subject(s): Faust; Gnats


FAUST BOOK: THE DOCTOR DISPLAYS HIS ERUDITION IN PHILOLOGY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Do you mind if we go by broomstick
Last Line: For you the word is shabath
Subject(s): Faust; Philology


FAUST BOOK: THE POLITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF FAUST, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A waste of time it would be, dear reader
Last Line: His faithful helper throughout, merely smiled
Subject(s): Faust; Politics


FAUST BOOK: THE PROFESSOR REMINISCES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The likeliest pupil I've had for ages
Last Line: He ought to go far
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: WAGNER IS ANXIOUS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What is amiss with my master
Last Line: I wish my master hadn't grown so young
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST BOOK: WALKING IN HARZ MOUNTAINS, FAUST SENSES GOD, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: God was a brooding presence
Last Line: Creation was never finished
Subject(s): Faust; God


FAUST: PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chanting sun, as ever, rivals
Last Line: To talk so humanely even to the devil
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST: SCENE 1. PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun makes music as of old
Last Line: To talk so freely with the devil himself.
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST: SCENE 2. MAY DAY NIGHT, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you not like a broomstick? As for me
Last Line: I am a dilettante curtain-lifter.
Subject(s): Faust


FAUST: SOLDIER'S SONG, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Castles with lofty
Last Line: Marching away.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faust; Life; Singing & Singers; Soldiers; Songs


FAUST: THE FIRST PART OF THE TRAGEDY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here stand I, ach, philosophy
Last Line: Heinrich! Heinrich!
Subject(s): Faust


FAUSTUS, by GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Faustus sold himself to the devil
Last Line: There was no devil but fear.
Subject(s): Faust


PROGRESS OF FAUST, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was born in deutschland, as you would suspect
Last Line: In an american desert at war's end %where, at his back, a dome of atoms rose
Subject(s): Faust


ROYALTIES, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: As 'name of individual, partnership, or corporatoin to whom paid'
Last Line: It's always a buyer's market, always
Subject(s): Faust


THE BARGAIN OF FAUST, by HAZEL NICHOLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shall a man, then, not own his own soul? Why
Last Line: She hers in heaven, but you yours in hell.
Subject(s): Faust; Future Life; Love; Sin; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE MILLS OF THE GODS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He was the slave of ambition
Last Line: Yet they grind exceeding small
Subject(s): Ambition;devil;faust; Satan;mephistopheles;lucifer;beelzebub


THE PROGRESS OF FAUST, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was born in deutschland, as you would suspect
Subject(s): Faust


THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not marching in the fields of trasimene
Last Line: "perpetuum.""—bullen."
Subject(s): Faust


TO MARIE, WITH A COPY OF THE TRANSLATION OF FAUST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This plant, it may be, grew from vigorous seed
Last Line: The form is mine, color and odor yours!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Faust; Plants; Translating & Interpreting; Planting; Planters